Nancy Pelosi

“My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress,...”

“I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.”

“America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.”

“The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to...”

“Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a respon...”

“My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, ther...”

“The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the major...”

“But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”

“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.”

“Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.”

“The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.”

“The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.”

“When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a...”

“They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.”

“I never dread going back to Congress.”

“Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.”

“I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be...”

“I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.”

“We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!”

“What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay...”